Scientific Programme

Time slots:

  • 40 minute time slot will STRICTLY correspond to 30 mins + 10 mins discussion
  • 15 minute time slot will STRICTLY correspond to 12 mins + 3 mins discussion
Sunday, May 8th
Arrival of participants to Frankfurt am Main
20:00 - 21:00 Dinner
Monday, May 9th
07:30 - 08:00 Breakfast
08:30 - 08:45 Departure to LH maintenance (by bus)
09:00 - 11:30 Ellen Bachmann, Armin Bayer: Tour of LH maintenance
11:30 - 12:30 Transfer to Mainz (by bus)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch at the Schott AG Cantine
13:30 - 16:00 Oliver Hochrein: Tour of Schott AG glass research labs
16:00 - 17:30 Transfer to Seehotel Maria Laach (by bus) and check-in
18:45 - 19:15 Greta Kueppers: VERTIGO Registration
19:30 - 21:00 Ulrich Kueppers: Opening reception and dinner
Tuesday, May 10th
08:30 - 08:45 Hans-Peter Ammel (mayor of Mendig) and Heinz Lempertz (President of Deutsche Vulkanologische Gesellschaft): Opening speech
08:45 - 09:30 Gerhard Wörner: The Eifel, a volcanic field in central Europe
09:30 - 10:15 Anselm Smolka: Volcanic eruptions: do insurance companies (have to) care?
10:15 - 11:00 Susan Loughlin: Managing the Montserrat volcanic crisis
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:45 Inga Tarasenko: The environmental effect of tephra: a multidisciplinary study (ESR talk 01)
11:45 - 12:00 Antonio Spanu: Spanu, Antonio: “Deriving the concentration of airborne ash with a CAS-DPOL instrument: assessing uncertainties introduced by the instrument design (ESR talk 02)
12:00 - 12:15 Matthieu Poret: Modeling ash dispersal of the 23 February 2013 Etna lava fountain (ESR talk 03)
12:15 - 12:30 Kathrin Laeger: Unraveling the Eyjafjallajökull 2010 plumbing system through high-resolution geochemical investigations (ESR talk 04)
12:30 - 12:45 Valeria Cigala: Evolution of starting jet dynamics: experimental and numerical approach (ESR talk 05)
12:45 - 13:00 Pierre-Yves Tournigand: Retrieving eruptive vent conditions from dynamical properties of unsteady volcanic plumes using high-speed imagery and numerical simulation (ESR talk 06)
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:45 Peter Baxter: Human health hazards of volcanic ash
15:45 - 16:30 Claire Horwell: Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of volcanic ash related to respiratory health hazard
16:30 - 17:00 Short introductory presentations to posters
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 18:30 Ulrich Kueppers, Jon Castro, Joern Sesterhenn: Supervisory Board meeting
19:30 - 20:30 Dinner
21:00 - 22:30 Poster session
Wednesday, May 11th
08:30 - 09:15 Grant Heiken: Evolution of research on volcanic ash
09:15 - 10:00 Michael Manga: Processes of ash generation
10:00 - 10:45 Klaus Sievers: Volcanic ash: A pilot’s perspective
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:30 Andreas Vogel: Volcanic ash physicochemical and optical properties – importance for flight operations (ESR talk 07)
11:30 - 11:45 Ka Lok Chan: Simulation of ceilometer backscatter signal from global chemical transport model data (ESR talk 08)
11:45 - 12:00 Ines Tomasek: Environmental and anthropogenic factors influencing respiratory toxicity of volcanic ash (ESR talk 09)
12:00 - 12:15 Joali Paredes: Evaluation of eruptive energy of pyroclastic deposits applying fractal geometry to fragment size distributions (ESR talk 10)
12:15 - 12:30 Pablo Forte: Forte, Pablo: “Chaitén volcano: a natural lab for learning about rhyolitic eruptions (ESR talk 11)
12:30 - 12:45 Sebastian Mueller: Fine ash removal from the atmosphere via aggregation (ESR talk 12)
12:45 - 13:00 Stefano Alois: Contact electrification in aerosolized particles quantified using laser based velocimetry and high speed imaging (ESR talk 13)
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:45 Pierre Delmelle: Volcanic ash reactivity in the environment
15:45 - 16:30 Ólafson Arnalds: The fate of volcanic ash, redistribution, soils and ecosystems
16:30 - 17:15 Hardy Pfanz: Mofettes: Volcanic CO2 exhalations
17:15 - 17:45 Coffee break
17:45 - 18:45 Greta Kueppers: VERTIGO ESRs meet Greta and Ulli
19:15 - 19:30 Transfer to Vulkan Brauhaus by bus
19:30 - 22:00 Dinner at Vulkan Brauhaus
22:00 - 22:15 Transfer to Seehotel Maria Laach by bus
Thursday, May 12th
09:30 - 09:45 Bus transfer to Waldfrieden
09:45 - 18:00 Ulrich Kueppers, Jon Castro, Joern Sesterhenn: 1. Lydiaturm (overview over Laacher See volcano and surroundings)
Hardy Pfanz: 2. CO2 springs (volcanic exhalations at the East shore)
Ulrich Kueppers, Jon Castro: 3. Wingertsbergwand (PDC deposits)
Volker Reppke (Deutsche Vulkanologische Gesellschaft): 4. Felsenkeller (underground basalt quarry)
18:00 - 18:15 Bus transfer back to Seehotel Maria Laach
19:30 - 21:00 Conference Dinner
Friday, May 13th
08:30 - 10:30 Ed Llewellin: How to elaborate experimental data I (OctoVolc experiments)
1) Data extraction from the raw video data
2) Linking the diameter of the bubbles to their volumes
3) Non-dimensionalizing the data to determine whether it collapses
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00 Ed Llewellin: How to elaborate experimental data II (OctoVolc experiments)
4) Fitting curves to the non-dimensionalized data to develop a model for gas bubble ascent velocity
5) Error propagation and analysis
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Paper writing by ESRs
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 19:00 Reviewing
19:30 - 20:30 Dinner
Saturday, May 14th
09:30 - 09:45 Bus transfer to Mendig
10:00 - 16:00 VERTIGO ESRs and external students: Student posters and kitchen table experiments at the Felsenkeller
16:30 - 18:00 Bus transfer to Frankfurt am Main (FRA)